I finally had the time to write something about the facebook-actionscript-api we used in one of our last projects. It’s a very interesting API when you want to add Facebook support (user management) to your site/project. There are different things you can do with this API: i.e. access user information, post on the user’s wall, get user’s photos and much much more.
Keith Peters was right, when he said, that Flash has a lack of UI component frameworks. The Flex components has a quasi monopoly on that. Besides his minimal components there is another alternative: AsWing.
Last year Neue Digitale / Razorfish gave me the chance to dive into AsWing. The task was to build a form manager that can not only run in Flex projects but also in straight AS3 projects where no flex runtime is available.
Just before christmas – as a little gift under the tree – we released the new version of our AS3 open-source VideoPlayer.
Hi there … it’s been a bit quiet here over the last month, but only because we had loads of work to do before christmas.
I just wanted to let you know, that we built our first real life Flash/Indexhibit website a few weeks ago – for a good friend who’s a photographer.
Finally we finished the “super simple” Flash example of our frontend for Indexhibit.
You can read more about the whole Flash / Indexhibit story here, here and here or just grab the new files and try for yourself …
Finally I had the time to add the missing features to our Spellchecker class v01.
You can now right-click the misspelled words and get suggestions from the loaded dictionary in the context-menu.
Some of you guys asked, why even using the PreLoader instead of the original Loader from Adobe in the first place. The PreLoader queues the load requests, that’s all… :) Read the full story here.
For quick starters here an super simple example, that illustrates what we’re talking about:
PreLoader simple example. You might want to use something like charles to throttle down your bandwidth.
This example is also to be found the in PreLoader repository.
Hi there.
After some inquiries we finally added the possibility to customize the Apdev VideoPlayer – only changing colors at this time but it’s a first step in the right direction …
You can now change any color of any object/control that is used within the videoplayer – but check the ApdevVideoPlayerDefaultStyle.as for all the attributes that can be manipulated. And it’s up to you whether you change the attributes using pure ActionScript (1) or our html-version of the videoplayer and pass the values in via flashvars (2). With approach 2 you don’t even have to know ActionScript or open a flash-file – just embed the videoplayer-swf into your website and customize it via flashvars.
For further information, see the upcoming examples.
This is just a small update to the sources of our Flash / Indexhibit example we posted earlier.
I added a FLA file for all of you that never used the Flex-compiler before :)
Just download the sources and open the ndxz.fla in (at least) Flash CS3. Hit cmd-return and enjoy.
When I have the time, I still want to build another very simple example that only uses assets from the library so that you can just change colors and forms on the timeline and re-compile the whole project with some great new looks.
Have fun. Cheers
Because some of you asked for an installation guide for the example I posted earlier – here comes a small how-to so that you can get the demo up and running on your own computer/webserver.
There is more than one way to get this done …
